Category: Film
The Classist Implications of The Secret Life of Pets
One wouldn’t at first glance think a garden variety animated kids’ movie could subtly undercut at the very nature of classism in New York City, [Read More…]
Friends That Spoon-Feed You When You’re Depressed Are Hard to Come By
When it comes to friendships portrayed on TV, very few come across as truly genuine (see: Blair Waldorf and Serena Van Der Woodsen). Surprisingly, the [Read More…]
Fundamentally Cliche: All Part of The Fundamentals of Caring
While some have difficulty with the overtness of Paul Rudd’s “surly” characters blatantly being sappy ones underneath it all, one can still find some redeeming qualities [Read More…]
Pretty Woman’s Vivian Ward Blazed the Trail For Closer’s Jane Jones
In many respects, the archetype for the shifty, con artist prostitute was perfected (at least in the mainstream) by Julia Roberts’ rendering of Vivian Ward. [Read More…]
Necbromance/Farting Toward Friendship in Swiss Army Man
The loneliness and inadequacy each and every one of us feels (perhaps more in the twenty-first century than ever before) is something most try to [Read More…]
The Death of Bill Cunningham Signals a Palpable Paradigm Shift in NYC Fashion
Bill Cunningham was very literally a living landmark of New York City. You couldn’t go anywhere in Manhattan without eventually spotting him behind his signature [Read More…]
Wiener-Dog: An Exhibit of the Emotional Abuse An Animal Endures From Its Owners
Only the singular mind of Todd Solondz would deliver us the closest thing we’ll ever get to a sequel for Welcome to the Dollhouse in [Read More…]
The Neon Demon: Pretty People With Ugly Problems (Including Cannibalism)
Vanity may not be one of the seven deadly sins, but perhaps it ought to be based on Nicholas Winding Refn’s twelfth feature (yes, he [Read More…]
Fuck You, A Walk To Remember
Nicholas Sparks has a long-standing relationship with deluding the masses of women. Before his most iconic contribution to pop culture, The Notebook, there was something [Read More…]
The Tragic Destiny of the Fatally Flawed Protagonist in Carlito’s Way
It is a tale as old as the first spoken and written words in literature: a fatally flawed hero tries to avoid his inevitable tragic [Read More…]
